skate journal: Mellow solo Valmont session (May 10, 2010)

Feeling pretty good, but not knowing what would really happen with my groin pull so I didn’t feel like calling anyone in case I had to bail right away. It ended up working out fine. I haven’t done an evening skate session in a long time and it felt weird. I drove by Steel Yards, but there was too many cars. Then I went to Valmont. I warmed up oh so slowly and skated slow and cautious, but started to push myself a bit again and it felt good. I started out doing manuals and tricks up/down the curbs. I felt so rusty. I eventually went over to the ledge. I mostly did halfcab noseslides over and over until I landed most of them. I also tried a few slow front crooks which I never landed. I did a few flippers too. Heelflip, 360 flip, halfcab flips, fakie flips. I tried a run for awhile of halfcab noseslide then b/s flip and got that. Then I tried adding a blunt to pivot to shove out on the curb but never got that one. At the end I did a couple ollies off the low part of the ledge and called it a night.